(Naval) First U.S. service member killed in Syria was a bomb disposal technician - Washington Post

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First U.S. service member killed in Syria was a bomb disposal technician

By Thomas Gibbons-Neff November 25 at 7:36 PM


Senior Chief Petty Officer Scott C. Dayton (Navy photo)
A U.S. Navy bomb disposal technician was killed by an improvised explosive device in northern Syria on Thursday, the Pentagon announced in a statement.

Senior Chief Petty Officer Scott C. Dayton, 42, of Woodbridge, Va., was killed near Ain Issa, a town roughly 35 miles northwest of the Islamic State’s self-proclaimed capital of Raqqa. The death marks the first time a U.S. service member has been killed in the country since a contingent of Special Operations forces was deployed there in October 2015 to go after the extremist group.

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